Ready to visit the best places to enjoy nature to make your journeys unforgettable? YES? Then here are the most exciting destinations for the year 2022 according to the National Geographic travel listing to satisfy the nature lover within you.
This list also includes several World Heritage sites to celebrate UNESCO’s 50 years of efforts to safe and defend natural treasures. While the COVID-19 has changed travel a lot making it hard to when, where, and how we travel.
Best Places to Enjoy Nature According to National Geo Graphic
Discover the best places to enjoy nature to unleash your wanderlust—and uncover the natural wonders.
Namibia
Discover a great safari, wildlife-rich Caprivi Strip located in Namibia. It is a narrow finger-like land located out toward the east (in the extreme north of the country). Various rivers including Okavango, Zambezi Kwando, and Chobe, produce a conducive habitat for copious animal species.
Nkasa Rupara National Park is a hidden gem found in the eastern part of the region. Both a ranger station and a tented lodge have made it approachable for tourists. Nkasa Rupara is one of Namibia’s largest protected wetlands, which is contained by the Kwando-Linyanti River system (to the south) and in the north by wetlands and lagoons.
Here you can see the largest population of buffalo and predators like lions, hyenas, and leopards. Rivers are full of crocodiles and hippos.
In the west, Mahango Game Park consists of swamps and Mopane (turpentine tree) forests. Here you can see large herds of elephants, crocodiles, hippos roaming around, and many antelope species.
Lake Baikal, Russia
Baikal is one of the massive lakes and natural wonders. Around 12,200 square miles long and 2,442 feet depth make it appear like a sea. Despite its natural charm, it is in serious trouble. Moreover, Baikal was declared a World Heritage site in 1996 by UNESCO— but Lake Baikal has going through continuing pollution, due to the current failure of government safeties, and rising tourism development.
After observing the circumstances International Union for Conservation of Nature considered the Baikal lake’s ecological World Heritage Outlook of major concern in the year 2020.
Tourists can support protecting the lake and its diverse settings that include boreal forest, tundra, steppe, and virgin beaches.
A nonprofit environmental group has associated with Great Baikal Trail Association on a volunteer basis to build an eco-tourism hiking route around the lake to help protect it.
Hiking the trail is a great planet-friendly approach to see various Lake Baikal plant and animal species that exist nowhere else on Earth— including the freshwater seal—nerpa.
Victoria, Australia
Discover the Great Ocean Road on your next journey. Bushfires burned around 72,000 square miles of land across Australia in 2019-2020. The cataclysms cause demises of three dozen people and over a billion animals.
To help rejuvenate the region Wildlife Wonders is a novel wildlife sanctuary tucked away off the Great Ocean Road among plush olden woodland and cascades. Brian Massey, who is the leading landscape designer of Hobbiton movie set tours (New Zealand) is the mastermind behind this wildlife sanctuary. Massey, with the help of various botanists, zoologists, scientists, and environmental experts, has hewed a winding woody track that is worth visiting.
On a guided tour of 75 minutes, you can admire nature full of eucalyptus trees, wallabies, koalas, and bandicoots.
Belize
Peep at tropical flora and fauna. America’s largest remaining tropical rainforest in northwestern Belize is named the Belize Maya Forest Reserve. This reserve safeguards around a 10th of Belize’s land area, defenses and attaches crucial locales for a huge selection of pervasive and vanishing wild animals and plants.
These include the tapir, over 400 species of birds; and some of Central America’s biggest alive populations of the jaguar. Visitors can enjoy ecotourism activities and guided expeditions.
Northern Minnesota
Thousands upon thousands of dazzling stars make northern Minnesota worth visiting. Northern Minnesota shares a border with the Canadian province of Ontario. It has almost no light pollution, it’s and inhabitants are gritty to preserve it that way.
Dark Sky Initiative is an underway cross-border effort to build one of the biggest dark sky destinations on the globe. Here you can explore Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness which is the prime International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world and bordering Voyageurs National Park.
